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Norton AntiVirus Help Interface Privilege Escalation
Secunia Advisory: SA7394
Release Date: 2002-10-25
Last Update: 2003-10-27
Popularity: 9,432 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Symantec Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition 7.x

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition 7.5 and 7.6, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to escalate privileges.

The problem is that the Norton AntiVirus invokes the Windows Help interface with LocalSystem privileges. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary commands on a system with escalated privileges.

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